Therapist: "Despite the popularity of TV shows depicting drug interventions, providing therapy for a serious problem such as drug addiction is not appropriate television material. These TV shows are done in a way to maximize entertainment, which is almost always incompatible with providing high quality, appropriate drug treatment and counseling. For this reason, licensed therapists should be prevented from televising their treatment sessions."
Which of the following must be assumed in order for the therapist's conclusion to be properly drawn?
A)Therapists should be stopped from providing therapy in a manner that makes it unlikely to provide high quality treatment.
B)It is never appropriate for medicine and entertainment to collide.
C)The private aspect of therapy is what prevents televised therapy sessions from being as successful as their non-televised counterparts.
D)While drug addiction is too serious a subject to be televised, therapy sessions for other, less serious psychological problems would be appropriate television material.
E)Maximizing entertainment is not appropriate for television shows with serious subject matters.

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For the therapist's conclusion to be properly drawn, it must be assumed that therapists should be stopped from providing therapy in a manner that makes them unlikely to provide high quality treatment. If it is true that a therapist should be prevented from televising sessions because televised therapy is incompatible with providing quality treatment, then it is assumed that therapists should be stopped from providing therapy in a way that makes them unlikely to provide quality treatment.

Therapist: "Despite the Popularity of TV Shows Depicting Drug Interventions